Release G6-A

Readme

Purpose

This document includes important, late-breaking
information about this release of the FDM adapter for Financial Management.
Review this Readme thoroughly before installing FDM Adapter forFinancial Management.

Late-breaking information about installation of EPM System
products is provided in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System
Installation and Configuration Readme. Review this information
thoroughly before installing EPM System products.

This section includes important information about
installing this release of the FDM adapter for Financial Management.

To add the Financial Management adapter to an FDM
application:

1.From FDM Workbench, open an FDM application.

2.Select File, and then Import. The Open Metadata Import File dialog box is
displayed.

3.Perform an action:

·To install the Financial Management adapter, browse to find the
file named FM11X-G6-A.xml, and click Open.

4.Click OK. The FDM adapter for Financial
Management is displayed in the list of imported target adapters on the Adapters
tab.

5.Select File, and then Register Adapter. The Register Adapter dialog box is
displayed.

6.Browse to find the file named fdmFM11XG6A.dll
and click Open.

7.Click OK.

8.Right-click on the adapter and select Configure.
The FDM Adapter COM Admin screen is displayed.

9.In the User Name, Password, Confirm Password, and Domain fields, enter
the appropriate information for the FDM service account. This should be the
same user used to configure the other FDM components.

10.Click
OK. If the FDM application server component is
installed on a machine without the FDM Workbench component, you must then set
the identity on the COM+ adapter object to the service account being used for
FDM by performing the following steps:

11.Open
the Windows Run window and enter dcomcnfg. The Component Services window is
displayed.

2.Right-click and select Options. The
Adapter Options dialog box is displayed. The Options menu enables you to select
any of the options for the selected adapter and change the option settings.

3.Set the adapter options per the guidelines in the following table:

Option Name

Information
Required

Application Name (required)

Name of Financial Management application
in which to load data. Must be a valid name in the Financial Management Win32
Client.

Logon Method

Select 1-Unified or 2-Global. Default
setting is 1 – Unified.

When set to Global, the UserID and
Password values in the Global Logon Information Integration Setting will be
passed to Financial Management every time.

When set to Unified, the UserID,
Password, and Domain values used to log into FDM are passed to Financial
Management.

Global Logon Information

UserID and password for that is passed to
Financial Management (format UID;PW). Only used if Logon method is set to 2 –
Global.

Use SSO

On/Off switch to enable Hyperion Single
Sign-On. Enable this option if logging on to FDM from a Financial Management
link. Because the Financial Management link does not pass a user name and
password, this indicates to FDM to retain the token in memory to pass back to
Financial Management when the Logon Method integration setting is set to 1 –
Unified. Default setting is “Off”.

Note: SSO is required to enable drill
through from Financial Management.

Use Sticky Server

On/Off used to force usage of one server
for Load, Consolidate, and Check. This enables the Financial Management
application server cache delay.

Enable this option to help circumvent the
Financial Management Application Server Cache Delay. When enabling this
option, each Financial Management application server that participates in the
cluster found in the machine profile must be registered as an individual
cluster in the Financial Management Win32 Client consisting of the server
name as the cluster name with the Use One Server Only option checked on all
FDM Application Servers. Default setting is “Off”.

Enable Intersection Validation

On/Off switch used to enable Financial
Management intersection validation report during the Validation step of the
FDM workflow. Default setting is set to “On”.

FDM Web Server Name

Name of Web server on which FDM Web
client is running (required only when the Intersection Validation Report is
enabled).

See the Financial Management documentation
for additional information on Line Item Detail.

Enable Drillable Region Load

On/Off switch used to enable or disable
the loading of drillable region data to the target application. Disabling
this option can improve performance. If drillable region data is not loaded
to the target application, then you must set the drillable region manually in
the target application to enable drill-through functionality.

Enable Multi-Load Zero Loading

(appears in standard adapter only) On/Off
switch used to allow zeros to be exported during Multiload.

Enable Journal Loading

On/Off switch used to enable loading of
journals into Financial Management. Default setting is “Off”. See the
Financial Management Documentation for additional information about Journals.

Enable Cell Text Loading

Used to enable and disable the
information contained in FDM memos to be sent to Financial Management as Cell
Text. Default setting is “Off” .When enabled, the LoadB action is executed in
the adapter.

Note: Cell text loading is only available
for single period loading in FDM. The LoadB action executes the following:

Step 1: Clear existing cell text in
Financial Management. This occurs for each unique entity in the load. Cell
text is cleared based on entity, data value, scenario, year, and period.

Step 2: Load new cell text. The cell text
replaces the cell text cleared in Step 1. New cell text is pulled from FDM
memo fields. Refer to the FDM Admin Guide for information on loading memo
items into FDM.

On/Off switch used to enable automatic
consolidation of data in Financial Management. Consolidations are based on
the information set up in the FDM Validation Entities. The default setting is
“On”. Additional information regarding consolidations is included in the
Financial Management documentation.

Enable Validation Report

Used to enable and disable the automatic
publication of the final report during the Check step of the FDM process flow.
Publication is based on the rules defined in the FDM validation rules.
Default setting is “On”.

Used to enable and disable the FDM
functionality that assists in protecting data values currently stored in
Financial Management loaded from other sources which could potentially be
deleted by means of the Replace option. Other data entry methods for
Financial Management and Replace functionality design are included in the
Financial Management documentation. Default setting is “Off”.

Protection Value

The value that is to be protected during
the Load stage when Enable Data Protection is enabled. The value in this field
is to be a dimension value inside of Financial Management across any
dimension.

Protection Operator

Select operator (= or <>). This is
used only when Enable Data Protection is enabled. The option allows you to
state that the data to be protected is equal (=) or not equal (<>) the
“Protection Value.”

Force Calculate

On/Off switch used to enable calculation
of cell prior to consolidation. Default setting is “Off”.

On/Off switch used to control journal
numbering (On = One ID for each entity in the POV, Off=One ID for all data in
the POV). This option is only used when Loading Journals. Default setting is
“On”.

Journal Load Balancing Attribute

Select B-Balanced, U-Unbalanced, or E‑Balanced
By Entity. This option is only used when Loading Journals. Default setting is
U-Unbalanced.

List All Periods

Use this switch to enable and disable the
listing of all periods from Financial Management into FDM to be used by the
FDM Control Tables. By default (turned “Off”), FDM only returns base-level
periods for the FDM Control Tables.

Problem: Using the Phased
Submissions feature in Financial Management when loading data from FDM can
cause issues with audit trails and also result in failed loads. This is because
after phase one is submitted, any subsequent loads of the same data will fail
because of locked intersections. In addition, reloading of data in FDM to the
same location will erase the audit trail of the previous export to Financial
Management.

Solution: In order to
preserve the audit trail and to avoid failed exports, Oracle recommends that
you create a separate FDM location for each Financial Management phase. For
example, a location named Texas would have locations named Texas1, Texas2, and
Texas3 to load Texas for Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 respectively. Oracle
also recommends separating the source data and the FDM maps by these phased
locations.

·#7704822 (enhancement request)—The adapter now honors the
Financial Management user preference for the decimal symbol. During the Export
action, the adapter retrieves the user’s decimal preference from Financial
Management and formats the Amount field accordingly.